AT-TQ2450 Wireless Access Point User’s Guide
Configuring the MAC Address Filter
The MAC address filter is used to control which wireless clients can access your network through the access point. You configure the filter by entering the MAC addresses of the wireless clients whose association requests are to be accepted or rejected by the access point. If you specify the MAC addresses of the permitted nodes, the access point accepts the association requests from the specified clients and rejects requests from all other clients. If you specify the MAC addresses of the denied clients, the device rejects association requests from the specified clients and accepts requests from all other clients.
Here are the guidelines to the MAC address filter:
The access point has only one MAC address filter.
You may activate or deactivate the filter on the individual VAPs, such that you have filtering on some VAPs and no filtering on others.
You need to know the MAC addresses of the wireless clients whose association requests the access point is to accept or reject.
You need to know the VAPs where you want to activate the filtering. Activating filtering on the VAPs is performed from the “Modify Virtual Access Point Settings” window, described in “Configuring Virtual Access Points” on page 54.
To configure the MAC address filter, perform the following procedure:
1.Select MAC Filtering Settings from the Manage menu.
The access point displays the “Configure MAC Filtering of Client Stations” window, shown in Figure 23 on page 78.
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